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Books in the Bibliography of Contested Continent by Peter Mancall

Description: The first volume of The Oxford History of the United States

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Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680

by Peter C. Mancall

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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675

by Bernard Bailyn

558 members

7 reviews

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Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture

by Jack P. Greene

226 members

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Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts

by Daniel K. Richter

205 members

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American Colonies: The Settling of North America

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12 reviews

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These Truths: A History of the United States

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49 reviews

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America, América: A New History of the New World

by Greg Grandin

295 members

6 reviews

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Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction

148 members

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New American World : A Documentary History (5-Volume Set)

by David B. Quinn

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English Historical Documents: Volume 9, American Colonial Documents to 1776

by Merrill Jensen

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The Jesuit relations and allied documents; travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in North America (1610-1791)

by Reuben Gold Thwaites

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Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth: Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society, 1846-1996

by P. E. H. Hair

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Remarkable Providences: Readings on Early American History

66 members

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Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640

by Peter C. Mancall

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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

by Ned Blackhawk

697 members

13 reviews

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One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark

by Colin G. Calloway

259 members

3 reviews

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New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America

by Colin G. Calloway

242 members

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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

by Kathleen DuVal

385 members

11 reviews

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Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America

by Pekka Hämäläinen

648 members

6 reviews

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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present

by David Treuer

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17 reviews

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Indians and English

by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

143 members

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Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America

by Daniel K. Richter

440 members

5 reviews

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Witness: A Hunkpapha Historian's Strong-Heart Song of the Lakotas

by Josephine Waggoner

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The American Indian and the Problem of History

by Calvin Martin

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Violence Over The Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West

by Ned Blackhawk

216 members

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European Americana: A Chronological Guide To Works Printed In Europe Relating To The Americas, 1493-1750

by John Eliot Alden

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A History of the Book in America, Volume 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World

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The printing press as an agent of change

by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

419 members

3 reviews

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The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 (Verso Classics, 10)

by Lucien Febvre

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4 reviews

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Voyages in Print: English Narratives of Travel to America 1576-1624

by Mary C. Fuller

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Engraving the Savage: The New World and Techniques of Civilization

by Michael Gaudio

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The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making

by Adrian Johns

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Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England

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Walter Ralegh's "History of the World" and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance

by Nicholas Popper

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Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England

by David Cressy

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Literacy in colonial New England; an enquiry into the social context of literacy in the early modern West

by Kenneth A. Lockridge

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Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas

by STEPHANIE KIRK

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Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society

by Mary Beth Norton

257 members

1 review

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Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives

by Natalie Zemon Davis

315 members

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Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

by Jennifer L. Morgan

145 members

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Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

by Jennifer L. Morgan

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The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800

by Lawrence Stone

273 members

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A Common Grave: Being Catholic in English America (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

by Susan Juster

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Jews and Gentiles in Early America: 1654-1800

by William Pencak

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The Economy of British America, 1607-1789

by John J. McCusker

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Money and exchange in Europe and America, 1600-1775 : a handbook

by John J. McCusker

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Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism

by Philip J. Stern

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3.8

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The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India

by Philip J. Stern

55 members

4 reviews

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The Mobilian trade language

by James Mack Crawford

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Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America

by Peter C. Mancall

38 members

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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

by Sidney Mintz

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14 reviews

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Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680

by Stuart B. Schwartz

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American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700

by Molly A Warsh

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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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From the Galleons to the Highlands: Slave Trade Routes in the Spanish Americas (Diálogos Series)

by Alex Borucki

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Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora (The Early Modern Americas)

by Kevin Dawson

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The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas

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Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades

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Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

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Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

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Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves

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The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

by Vincent Brown

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The Routledge History of Slavery (Routledge Histories)

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American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865

by Sean M. Kelley

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A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic (The Early Modern Americas)

by Simon P. Newman

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Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807

by Gregory E. O'Malley

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Slavery and Social Death

by Orlando Patterson

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Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

by Nicholas Radburn

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Beyond 1619: The Atlantic Origins of American Slavery

by Paul J. Polgar

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The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean (Early American Studies)

by Casey Schmitt

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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870

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Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 100)

by Tatiana Seijas

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White Servitude in Colonial America: An economic analysis

by David W. Galenson

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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

by Saidiya Hartman

492 members

4 reviews

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Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora

by Stephanie E. Smallwood

212 members

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Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World (The Early Modern Americas)

by Michael Guasco

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The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World

by John Samuel Harpham

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Freedom's Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752

by William A. Pettigrew

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Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865

by Christopher Tomlins

41 members

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Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England (Early American Studies)

by Gloria McCahon Whiting

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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America

by Wendy Warren

227 members

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That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500 (The Middle Ages Series)

by Hannah Barker

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Enemies and Familiars: Slavery and Mastery in Fifteenth-Century Valencia (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past)

by Debra Blumenthal

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African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (The Early Modern Americas)

by Herman L. Bennett

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Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas

by Judith A. Carney

142 members

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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

by Howard W. French

374 members

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The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo

by Cécile Fromont

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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

231 members

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Africa's Discovery of Europe 1450-1850 (2nd Edition)

by David Northrup

91 members

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Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (Studies in Comparative World History)

by John Thornton

361 members

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Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660

by Linda M. Heywood

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The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717

208 members

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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

by Andrés Reséndez

711 members

11 reviews

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Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France

by Brett Rushforth

73 members

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Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America

by Christina Snyder

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Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676

196 members

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The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica (The Early Modern Americas)

by Trevor Burnard

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Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713

by Richard S. Dunn

266 members

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The Middle Ground: Indian, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815

by Richard White

481 members

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The Spanish Frontier in North America

by David J. Weber

338 members

3 reviews

4.1

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